Clarkston, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clarkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99403. The Survey maps it on the Clarkston quadrangle. 7,161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.
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On record in Clarkston
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Clarkston Public Librarylisted 1982
US Post Office-Clarkston Mainlisted 1991
C. C. Van Arsdol Houselisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresClarkston fell from 7,229 to 7,161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,229 | |
| 2020 | 7,161 | -68 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1945 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clarkston in 2018, burning about 283 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 283 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | MILE MARKER 319 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Clarkston: 12 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkston Placer | Gold, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Clarkston Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Barnes Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Northwest Aggregates | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Collins Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| McGregor Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Clarkston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Clarkston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dry Gulch Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Clarkston | $30,000 | Over 0.75" fell over the Clarkston Valley causing flooding on the Interstate bridge and prompting to be closed for two hours. Several roads were also under about a foot of water. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Clarkston | $30,000 | Rainfall amounts of up to 0.87" fell over the Clarkston Valley, causing several streets to flood and mudslides closing roads. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $10,000 | Strong downburst winds from a thunderstorm knocked out power to 2,000 customers in Clarkston when a tree blew down on a power line. An addition, a portable carport was blown into another power line. Another tree was uprooted knocking down another power line and landing on a shop. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $5,000 | A severe thunderstorm moving off the Blue Mountains blew over power poles. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $1,000 | 65 mph gust, large tree down |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarkston | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Clarkston | - | A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch from thunderstorms near Clarkston. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Clarkston | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Vineland | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Highland | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Clarkston Heights | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Asotin | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Jerry | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Silcott | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Grahams Landing | 14.2 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Clarkston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q980878 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512093. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






